Two police officers are stationed by the closed wrought iron gates outside the star's home.

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Driving through the gates of the space town, Star City looks like nothing more than a collection of grey concrete homes, seemingly frozen in the 1960s.

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Star CEO drop-outs like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs may be famous, but they are by far the exception to the rule.

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Uh, they're showing a total nonsequitur video of Gates and Ballmer hanging out in line in the Star Wars line to try and understand their demographic.

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After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign.

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Ms Rice's more pragmatic star has risen, along with that of the new defence secretary, Robert Gates.

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Afghanistan's only five-star hotel is also a virtual fortress, surrounded by blast barriers, metal detectors, multiple reinforced gates and heavily armed guards.

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